no RAM, no SSD and no GPU PCs. AI is taking us to the dark ages
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That's a market that has needed to die for everyone's best interest.
We don't have an affordability problem, we have a spending problem. People buying the latest greatest phone non-stop is why nobody has money.
My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. Before that was an S7. And the only reason I upgraded from the S7 is because the S7 screen developed a tiny crack and the OLEDs began to decay and fail, and the battery had gone long enough that it couldn't keep up without two charges a day. Plus it wasn't compatible with 5G. Also, the camera on the S20 Ultra was (and still is) extremely good, the S7 was trash.
In that case I had objective reasons for upgrading.
Ask someone who just bought the latest iPhone what objectively makes it better than last year's model and they'll just stare at you dimly and say 'it's better cuz number go up'.
Phone cameras were the only technology I really followed the progress of and even that has stagnated. Phone cameras consistently got better with every model for a decade to where they are now comparable with real cameras.
I got the S23 Ultra for its 10x zoom camera which was genuinely really cool and I have taken over a hundred professional-looking photos with it. Naturally with following releases they dropped it to a 5x camera with "Ai-pOWeReD 10x zoom" (it looks like shit) while raising the phone price. Meanwhile the main cameras on all phones have remained basically unchanged since 2020. Since realizing these companies have actually given up I just downgraded to a smaller phone and got a real camera.